How the image on the Shroud was formed

YouTube sidebar suggestions offered up a Shroud of Turin link. Some of these Shroud videos are okay, others annoying. Also, I'm pretty familiar with about everything they have to say. At over 34 minutes, I wasn't going to watch, but I did, watching at 1.5x.

Aside from a couple of "what do you think? Leave a comment" interruptions, it was pretty thorough and up-to-date with everything I know at least, from Segundo Pia's groundbreaking photography to the 3-D computer analysis, the "debunking" based on a piece of the repairs not the original cloth, to the pollen and blood and scourgemarks validations.

One bit I hadn't known. Scientists determined that the image method was able to be duplicated, on a very small scale. To create the image on the Shroud, though, would take "a simultaneous energy pulse of 34 trillion watts lasting less than a billionth of a second." Whoa!

The meaning of Jesus' raising, physical body or what, is of course a long running debate with theological implications. The method by which the Shroud image could be formed likewise.

Dang, Pixy, can't you give us a LITTLE more comment length? continued...
Posted by: mindful webworker - mysteries of history 1 of 2 at April 07, 2026 11:44 PM (Qlfju)

Urantia Paper 189, The Resurrection

Of all the explanations for its creation, the one I've found the most intriguing was in The Urantia Book, a self-proclaimed revelation from the first half of the 20th Century. When Jesus rose, his body still lay in the tomb. The UB says that the angels received permission from the celestial bureaucracy that, rather than watch the Master's mortal body decay, they asked " for immediate dissolution. We do not propose to employ our technique of dematerialization; we merely wish to invoke the process of accelerated time" "…a return of the 'dust to dust,' without the intervention of the delays of time and without the operation of the ordinary and visible processes of mortal decay and material corruption." Such a process could create the kind of high-powered flash needed to create the Shroud image.

However, after Mary and Peter and John had seen the burial cloths lying there undisturbed, the captain of the temple guards was sent to the tomb, "to remove the grave cloths. The captain wrapped them all up in the linen sheet and threw them over a near-by cliff."

If the Shroud is authentic, SOMEone found the bundle at the bottom of the cliff.

The UB has nothing to say about that. Heh.